{"id":400418,"date":"2026-08-07T17:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400418\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:44:18","slug":"police-searching-for-suspect-after-officer-involved-shooting-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400418\/","title":{"rendered":"Police searching for suspect after officer-involved shooting in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police<\/a> were seeking the public’s help Friday morning finding a suspect at the center of an officer-involved shooting in northeast Dallas \u2014 the third such shooting in the city<\/a> in less than 24 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The suspect, whom police said stabbed a woman before fleeing the scene, was identified by police as 37-year-old Isidoro Melo-Munoz. He was described as a Hispanic man who is about 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 140 pounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a photo shared by the department, Melo-Munoz appears to be wearing a black long-sleeve shirt, dark jeans and white Nike sneakers. Anyone who sees him is asked to call 911.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a midmorning news conference, Assistant Chief of Police Terrence Rhodes said officers were called about 7 a.m. to the 8500 block of Park Lane, where they found Melo-Munoz on top of the woman, holding her at knife point. <\/p>\n

Police ordered Melo-Munoz to drop the knife, and when he refused, Rhodes said officers shot at him. Melo-Munez then fled the scene; it was unclear if he was injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As of 11 a.m., Melo-Munez had not been found.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Drones and a helicopter roared above as police searched near the Sunchase Park apartment complex, where investigators tied yellow caution tape from a patrol car to the fences surrounding the complex’s parking lot. Officers were also scouring the area in their patrol cars and on foot, at least one accompanied by a K-9.<\/p>\n

Police officials said the public is not in danger and should not be alarmed, calling the stabbing an isolated incident.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

What unfolded on Park Lane marked the third officer-involved shooting in two days \u2014 all unrelated, all in northern Dallas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Dallas police officers first responded to gunfire in Melshire Estates<\/a>, where police said an armed robbery suspect ended a nearly 20-mile pursuit. Department officials said later at a news conference that an officer fired at the suspect as he got out of a stolen vehicle. <\/p>\n

No one was injured, and the suspect was taken into custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ninety minutes later, another shooting occurred in the parking lot of a nearby Sam\u2019s Club. Dallas Independent School District officer Justin Jones<\/a>, 39, was taken to Parkland Hospital after he was shot in the torso by a suspect police have yet to identify. <\/p>\n

As of Friday morning, police officials said Jones was stable.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is a developing story and will be updated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Staff Writer Sally Avila Edwards contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police were seeking the public’s help Friday morning finding a suspect at the center of an officer-involved shooting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[732,102,104,103,87998,89139,95042],"class_list":["post-400418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-article","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-dallas-police","tag-tp-north-dallas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}